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Choose from almost 200 Pre-conference mini-courses, regular conference workshops and sessions.

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Thursday Keynote Opening Introduction

Mayor Woodards will introduce our 58th NWMC on Thursday evening. The "City of Destiny" has been her home for nearly her entire life. A graduate of Tacoma's Lincoln HS, she served as a soldier in the US Army. Before becoming Mayor in 2018, she served for seven years on the City Council where she launched the City's Equity and Empowerment initiative which led to the Office of Equity and Human Rights. She brought partner organizations together for then President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative and spearheaded the City's Project PEACE initiative.

Feature Speaker

Niral's 2 pm Friday STEM Session is, "What Does Race Have to Do With Math Education?"

Niral's research focuses on equity and implicit bias in STEM education. Mathematics is often seen as “neutral” and “race-free,” but Shah’s research shows that math classrooms are highly racialized spaces. He studies how false racial narratives affect classroom interaction and serve to position students as more or less capable of learning math. He is collaborating with STEM teachers to reflect on how implicit bias affects students’ opportunities to learn. Shah has co-developed an equity-focused classroom observation tool called EQUIP.

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Bowen's 4 pm Friday STEM Session is, "Mathematics of Game Shows". Bowen has 15 years of curriculum writing experience, including lead writer on CME Project (Grades 9-12) and Illustrative Mathematics (Grades 6-8). He has been an instructor for the Park City Math Institute Teacher Leadership Program for 19 years. Prior to writing curriculum, Bowen was a HS math teacher. He has presented at multiple NCTM national conferences, NWMC, and PAX. He is currently ranked 5th in the World Pinball Player Rankings. In 2000, he was a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Bowen correctly answered "How many degrees are in a right angle?".

Feature speaker/Igniter

Chris has a 2 pm Friday Workshop, "Clothesline Math: Statistics on the Open Number Line" and a 11 am Session, "The Wall of Good Intentions is Creating Some of Your Achievement Gaps". Chris describes himself as a creator of lessons, trainer of teachers, teacher of kids, and lover of math. He is the author of ultimate math lessons & Clothesline Math at The Math Projects Journal. A Math Coach for Temecula Valley USD, he is a recipient of the Presidential Award. Chris has led schools to significant improvements in standardized test scores.

Feature speaker/Mini-course

Elham shares a Mini-course w/ Megan Franke and a 10 am Friday Session, "Learning From Students When Leading Mathematical Discussions".

Elham is a professor of mathematics education at UW Seattle. She loves to learn about children’s mathematical thinking, working with teachers to develop thriving learning communities. Her work is informed by equity-oriented research on organizational learning, children’s mathematical thinking, and classroom practice.

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Anita's Friday noon Workshop is, "Real World Problems: Whose World is Represented in Our Math Tasks?"

Anita taught in Kenya with the US Peace Corps, where she met her late husband, Peter, a cultural & language trainer. A former MS teacher, she is a Clinical professor at UW Seattle. Anita works with math teachers/leaders to develop identity-affirming classrooms where students joyfully explore their curiosities through conjecturing, problem solving, reasoning and discussion.

Feature Speaker/Mini-course

Join her Mini-course, "The Power of Counting With Students Across PreK-5" or her Session (w/Elham Kazemi), "Learning From Students When Leading Mathematical Discussions". Megan is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Her research focuses on understanding and supporting teacher learning. She studies how teaching math with attention to students and their math thinking can create opportunities for low-income students of color to learn math with understanding.

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Mike's 9 am Friday Session is, "Powerful Moments in Math Class: How We Create More of Them".

Mike is the director of Mathematics Leadership Programs at Mount Holyoke College, where he runs the Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics program. Mike is also the author of Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children. Mike taught second grade for 14 years and was the 2008 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year and a 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching.

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Timea's Friday noon Session is, "Please Touch the Math!" Timea is a Hungarian born interdisciplinary visual artist. Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree (Budapest, Hungary); a BFA in Ceramics (MCA Boston), and an MFA in ceramics from UW, where she is currently a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Brazil, Australia, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands. She is the founder/director of SlipRabbit, a nonprofit digital ceramics studio in Seattle.

Featured Speaker/Igniter

Come hear her Saturday, 11 am Session, "Sense-Making: Aren't We Already Doing That in Literacy?"

Founding staff member of the Math Forum from 1992 through 2017, Annie also worked on the project that produced the 1st version of Geometer's Sketchpad. Her current work focuses on development of students' problem solving skills and increasing their willingness to engage in and make sense of mathematics.

Featured Speaker/Mini-course

Catch his Mini-course or his Friday, 1 pm Session, "How Mathematicians Play: Creating a Culture of Ownership, Rigor, and Joy". Dan is the Founder of Math4Love, and believes everyone deserves meaningful & playful math experiences. Co-creator of math games, Prime Climb and Tiny Polka Dot, his play-based intervention curriculum is used by thousands of students.

Featured Speaker/Igniter

Her 2 pm Friday Session is entitled, "PLC: Purposefully Leveraging Community - Because Good to Great is Not a Solo Climb".A Presidential Awardee, Albert Einstein Fellow and former NCTM board member, Peg also taught at Vanderbilt University. A HS teacher in LA, she serves as Director of the Park City Math Institute/Teacher Leadership Program, and is an NSTA/NCTM STEM Teacher Ambassador.

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